Oct 18 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator James E. Webb, in interview with Look, rejected report that U.S.S.R. had lost men in space: "Every bit of information we have shows that they have been as careful with the lives of cosmonauts as we have been with astronauts. As far as I know, they have not lost a single man in flight. They have lost them on the ground, they have lost them in airplanes, just like we have." (Look, 10/18/66)
Research and development in essential space programs would not be seriously affected by demands of the Vietnam conflict, USAF Under Secretary Norman S. Paul told a National Space Club meeting in Washington, D.C. Asked during question and answer period for rough estimate of military manned spaceflight expenditures in the 1970s, Paul said that currently DOD was spending $1.3 billion of its $7 billion R&D budget on space and that it was "a safe guess this amount will go up." Asked if there might be NASA programs competitive with USAF's MOL, Paul said there was "not the slightest possibility." (Text, M/S Daily, 10/19/66, 20)
DOD announced USAF would buy 99 improved F4E Phantom jet aircraft equipped for first time with internally mounted 20-mm. Gatling gun capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute. Aircraft would give US. superiority over Soviet-made MiG-21s used by North Vietnam. (AP, NYT, 10/20/66, 27).
Dr. Jan H. Oort, head of Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, and former head of International Astronomical Union, received 1966 Vetlesen Award in earth sciences. Administered by Columbia Univ. for the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, the prize was awarded for outstanding achievement in the sciences resulting in a clearer understanding of earth." NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications Dr. Homer E. Newell noted in speech at award dinner that "through the space approach . . . the domain of the geosciences" had been strengthened and extended: "The theories, instruments,, and skills needed and developed to study the earth can now be applied to investigating the moon and planets at first hand. Comparative studies of the planets and their atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres, promise increased understanding of our own planet, earth." (Text, Sullivan, NYT, 10/19/ 66, 36)
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